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Exhibition History Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)

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[Celestial globe]
Creator:
Schöner, Johann, 1477–1547
Date:
[ca. 1522]
Physical Description:
1 globe : paint and gesso over hollow wood sphere, brass (stand) ; 368 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]
Physical Description:
[2], 5-60, [32] leaves (last leaf blank), [92] leaves of plates : ill., 47 maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new map of the English empire in America : viz Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Jarsey, Carolina, New England, Pennsylvania, Newfoundland, New France &c. / by Rob. Morden. ; J. Harris sculp.
Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:
[ca. 1695]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 51 x 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Terrestrial globe]
Date:
[ca. 1522]
Physical Description:
1 globe : paint and gesso over hollow wood sphere, brass (stand) ; 368 mm in diam.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of the southeastern part of North America.
Creator:
Hammerton, William, -1732
Date:
1721
Physical Description:
1 map : pen and black and brown ink, with red, yellow, and blue-gray wash ; 78 x 132 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Acorn Foundation, Inc., Alexander O. Vietor, Yale BA 1936, President, in honor of Paul Mellon
Account of the last voyage of Thomas Cavendish.
Creator:
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592
Date:
1592
Physical Description:
1 v. (38 leaves) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:
[ca. 1677]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 42 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier, Sir, 1807–1873
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
xix, 405, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
Date:
[approximately 1716?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2] pages, 95, 132 leaves of plates) : 227 maps ; 54 x 68 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Date:
1805-34
Physical Description:
32 v. : col. plates, maps, charts ; 35 x 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566
Date:
Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]
Physical Description:
[8], 141, [3] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. America.

No cover image available
Creator:
Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676–1751
Date:
[after 1727]
Physical Description:
1 map : outline color ; 56.7 x 97.3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
Date:
1590[-1630]
Physical Description:
14 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Mercator, Michael, d. 1600
Date:
between 1613 and 1630]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col. ; 33.8 in diam.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
Anno Domini. M.D.XI. die. xx. mensis Martii. [March 22, 1511]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([62] leaves, [28] double leaves of plates) : ill., maps ; 43 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782–1867
Date:
MDCCCXLIII-MDCCCXLIV [1843-1844]
Physical Description:
2 volumes (x, [2], 520 pages, [1] leaf of plates; [2], XXXIII, 48 leaves) : illustrations, portraits, map ; 33-63 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date:
1488
Physical Description:
[180] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Allard, Carel, 1648–approximately 1709
Date:
[not after 1698?]
Physical Description:
[14] pages, [202] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:
circa 1597
Physical Description:
1 sheet : pen and black ink ; 29 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Lewis, James Otto, 1799–1858
Date:
1835-[1836]
Physical Description:
10 parts (80 unnumbered plates) : color illustrations, portraits ; 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563–1611
Date:
[1598]
Physical Description:
[10], 197, [4], 198-259 [i.e. 295], [3], 307-462 p., [23] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:
[1482]
Physical Description:
1 map : woodcut ; image 41 x 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 map ; 63 x 47 cm, on sheet 66 x 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
xiii, [1] 468 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, folded map ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571–1638
Date:
[1686?]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 83 x 106 cm, on sheet 87 x 111 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678–1756
Date:
[1730]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 48 x 56 cm., on sheet 52 x 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Atlas siue Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura / Gerardo Mercatore Rupelmundano ...
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594
Date:
anno 1595
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([14], 32, [16] pages, [254] leaves) : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 43 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Dudley, Robert, Sir, 1574–1649
Date:
MDCLXI [1661]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 57 x 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Browne, Christopher, active 1684–1712
Date:
[1685?]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 48 x 55 cm, on sheet 53 x 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Osborn, Sherard, 1822–1875
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
vii, 320 p., [4] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440–1514
Date:
duodecima mensis Iulij anno salutis n[ost]r[a]e. 1493
Physical Description:
[20], CCXCIX, [9] leaves : 1809 illustrations, 2 maps (woodcuts) ; 50 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Mela, Pomponius
Date:
.15. Calen[das] Augusti anno salutis nostr[ae] 1482 [18 July 1482]
Physical Description:
[96] pages : map ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Green, John, -1757
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 1753.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts